Japanese Folk Tale

Propi tious Births 9
Further references:
"Taketori-no-okina" Gwaun nikken roku, 2 (Second Month, Bunka 4)
[1444J. The writer asked a well-versed zat6 what the origin was of the
phrase "smoke of Fuji," which was used often by poets, and he gave
the following reply:
Long ago in the reign of Emperor T enchi, an old man used to sell
bamboo at the foot of Mt. Fuji. People were suspicious and followed
him. They learned that he was from Uguisu-mura, a village
half way up Mt. Fuji. A beautiful girl was at his house. She had
been hatched from an egg in a cormorant's nest and had turned
into a little girl. The old man was bringing her up lovingly. People
called him Take-tori-no-okina because he was making a living by
selling bamboo.
She was promised later to be a consort of the Emperor. She
was called Kaguyahime. There are episodes about her going up to
heaven and the potion of immortality being burned, and the rest of
the story is like "Taketori monogatari."
"Uguisuhime" [Nightingale Princess]. As yet this is not found among
legends of oral tradition.
The name Uguisuhime is mentioned in Koeki zokusetsubon, sei 3,
40. It is clear that Kaguyahime was Uguisuhime in Shinetsu jiken shu
(in Zoku Gunsho ruiju 17, 154).
Gwaun nikken roku 1. The child came from a nightingale's egg and
was called Kaguyahime.
Kaidoki. The Kaguyahime of "Taketori-no-okina" was from a
nightingale's egg, and gold came out of green bamboo.
Kokumei fudoki (In Nihon fuzoku shi, chu).
Sangoku denki, maki 12 (In Toyo kohi daizen 151).
Konjaku monogatari, maki 31, No. 33. There is a part about finding
gold inside the bamboo, just as in Kaidoki.
Shinrin saiyosho. The story about a hawk and a dog of an old man
called Hayashi Mitsukuri.
Ruiju meibutsuko, maki 17.
6. The Ghost that Cared for her Child
A woman came every night around midnight to buy arne at a little
candy store in the village. She always put her hand through the door
and she bought with the same coin. The owner of the shop thought it
strange and followed her. After she went as far as the garden, she
turned into a flame which went out beside a grave. The shopkeeper
was sure she was a ghost. The next day when he went to look around
where the fire had vanished, he found a hole opened in a new grave.
He dug and found a baby boy with wide-open eyes sitting by a woman's
corpse. The child had been born after the woman had died, and she